[Specifically notices the second part of the message, but chooses not to address it. Not a subject he's comfortable discussing since the parallels between them are very clear to Zero.]
[He hadn't spoken to either Hikaru or Kaoru since he'd returned, proof that the way he lived resulted in few attachments. He'd been gone nearly five days and even if it was how he'd wanted things to be, it didn't lessen the sting of the realization that the people he did care about in this world failed to notice his absense.]